Improvement in shoes



for yielding only upon one side.

VUNiTED STATES 'PAT-EN OFFICE Jo'snrn L. JoYong'oF Newrinviata,'oonnntutcu'r-y4 n 'iMPRo'VEMENT IN sH'oEs.

Specification forming partei' Letters Patent lio/49,415, dated Align-*i515, 1365 Be it, known that I, JOSEPH L. JOYCE, of New Haven, in thecounty of New Havelland' State of Gonnecticutg'have,invented anew anduseful Improvementi'n Buttoned` Shoes; and 1 do hereby declare the.following, when taken in connection with the accoxnpanyin draw-- ingsand theletter's of reference marke thereon, to be a full, clear', andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof th'isjspecieation, and represent, in-' l Figure 1, l:a side view;lFig.2, a partial front 'vie-w,A and iii-"'Figl a -seetien tlirenglr 1aly;

'In the manufacture of button-shoes itis nec` essary that the shoesshould be made `with'ref-v erence to the foot upon which they are to -beworn, as nov adjust-ment beyond the limit of the huttons .cau beobtained'whereby the shoe would fit equally well feet of various forms.To overcome this difficulty a ot' 'gore shirred y rubber -has'beeninserted opposite the buttons,

Vditcultiesnnl objections; and it consists in placing a gore in thefront ot' the' shoe, which said gore is covered by fiies laced withelastic cord, which gives to the shoe the appearance of lacing and atthe same time alltlie advantages of a button-shoe.

To enable others skilled iu the art to manufacture-my improved shoes, Iwill proceed to fully describe the same as illustrated'in the ae--companying drawings.

The several parts oftheshoearecut inthe 'usual manner-for abutton-shoc.The twoparts t y l of the vfront A and Bwhich are usually joined1 hy a'stitched seam, I` unite lin the ibllowing manner: Upon the inside oftheshoeand to each ot' the parts A and B, Il secure a gore. ot'-,

shirred rubber, a, ata littlcdistance fromthe i 'edge ot' the two partsA andlB,as seeninrFig, .y 3, the edges of each oi thet'wo parts-Aand B llying over and forming 1iie`s,`in,t,o which 'I Tix eyelets in the usualmannertforjlacing shoes.-` z` Through these eyelets 1 mn an r11-asn@cora, a., denetetl in red, Fig,.3 l y By this arrangement the front of lthe1shoe y -will open and yield to conformto the shape of the foot andankle, yielding alike to each side',

so that the seam Oropeningin `front oi' the fore conldonly be donebymeasure.

, I do not claim inserting inthe` shoe or gaiter 4.shoe will be uniformand centralupon thefcot, thus enabling me to manufacture button-shoes l-for the market which.` will fit equally welll'eet I l and ankles ofdifferent forms, which heretoat the points' where it is to befastenedapiece or pieces of elastic rubber cloth .for the purr pose of fasteningthe shoe or gaiter with hooks n and eyes or buttons or buckles?``',Iherefore,"L l y Having thus fully described' my invention,f whatIclailnas new and useful, auddcsiretose` cure by Letters Patent, is-

ing in the front with `the sideopeningfsuh-` stantially in the mannerand for thepurpose A specified.

' J. L; Jolyon. H Witnesses:

. JOHN E. EA'ufLE,

Many A. HINE.

The combination ot theelastic gore andlac

